<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Ed,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">If you are using Amarok 2.x, then I am afraid it will not work. I have a Video iPod and it works very well with Amarok 1.4.10.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">When I moved to Mandriva 2009, Amarok 2.x was default and I had to uninstall it and install 1.4.10, to have my iPod work with Amarok.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;" clear="all">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">After spending about 3 months on Mandriva 2009 and PCLinuxOS 2009 not being up to the mark as version 2007, I switched to Gentoo based Sabayon Linux 4.0.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">To make my iPod work, (it worked without any intervention with PCLOS 2007 and Mandriva 2009), I had to installed a few more addons:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">Package: app-pda/gtkpod-0.99.14</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">Package: app-pda/ipodslave-0.7.3</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">Package: media-libs/libgpod-0.7.0</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">Package: media-libs/libipoddevice-0.5.3</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">Package: media-plugins/quodlibet-ipod-0.4-r1</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;"></b></div><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Amarok version installed: </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Package: media-sound/amarok-1.4.10-r1</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></b></div><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">When you detect your ipod, make sure you mount it with the right options:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">agni40 ~ # lsusb | grep iPod</span></b><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:1209 Apple, Inc. iPod Video</span></b><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">agni40 ~ # ls -ld /media/GUNJAS_S_IP/</span></b><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">drwxr-xr-x 8 gunjas root 16384 1970-01-01 00:00 /media/GUNJAS_S_IP/</span></b><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;"><b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">agni40 ~ # mount | grep GUN</span></b><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">/dev/sdc2 on /media/GUNJAS_S_IP type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)</span></b><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
</div><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">After all this I got the following error: <b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">libgpod.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</b></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">To solve this, I create a soft-link under /usr/lib :<b style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> ln -s libgpod.so.4.0.0 libgpod.so.3</b></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">It works without issue now. If you are facing different errors, please share the message or screenshot. Thanks</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">-GGR</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">--</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Rajiv G Gunja</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">Blog: </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;" href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: georgia,serif;"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/7 Ed Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edward_d_browne@yahoo.com" target="_blank">edward_d_browne@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
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<div><div style="font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>I'm trying to manage a 4th Generation iPod nano on linux,<br>on Ubuntu with a 2.6.24 kernel. I read a couple of good<br>
entries on using Amarok to manage it. It doesn't quite<br>work, but I think I'm getting close. I'll gladly accept any<br>advice on this, but what's really getting in my way right<br>now is something much simpler - how do you get this<br>
damn Music Browser to stop launching itself over and<br>over on the iPod (I woudn't mind if it worked, but it<br>definitely doesn't)? I tried going to System->Preferred<br>Applications->Multimedia, where Music Browser<br>
was specified, but even changing that to Amarok doesn't<br>cause Amarok to launch in place of Music Browser,<br>Music Browser just keeps launching
itself.<br><br>Thanks again - Ed <br></div></div><br>
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